Sarah and Averill discuss the court case at the center of some of the most intense protests the University at Buffalo as even seen, all in the midst of the anti-war movement in the 1960s: The Buffalo Nine.
The little-known episode of the War of 1812 – when the British troops burned Buffalo, NY to the ground.
How did communities like Springfield, the “buckle” of the Bible Belt, deal with the AIDS crisis?
We think we know the story of the end of slavery in the United States: Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery with a stroke of his pen, and millions of enslaved men, women and children went forward happily into their new lives as freedpeople. But the reality wasn’t quite so sunny. Read more…